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...correct response to such a proposal is not “But you’re married!” because the response will invariably be “But in our law, men can have two wives!”—to watching Nasser-era Egyptian films and skirting eager cab drivers, airports have offered me hours on hours of good...
...same time, though, wives follow their husbands in the street and women are not supposed to make eye contact with men. A skirt that falls just below the knee will draw whistles and disapproving stares from across the Nile, but Britney Spears and Kelis dominate even the Egyptian music video channels. These ironies struck me as simultaneously amusing...
Rebecca D. O’Brien ’06, a history and literature and near eastern languages and civilizations concentrator in Kirkland House, is a news editor and beat manager of The Crimson. She plans to spend the first part of the summer immersing herself in sand and Egyptian culture and the second part of her summer immersing himself in Crimson sports...
...young boys on the street trying to sell me rolls of toilet paper and by my ancient Arabic teacher, who calls me amira (“princess”) because I am always complaining about the air conditioning. I have been laughed at by the men in the Egyptian travel agency, who had me repeat Arabic phrases but wouldn’t tell me what they meant. I have been laughed at by the guard in front of my dorm when I flinched at his casual toss of his semi-automatic. And though I might have been cold, embarrassed...
According to Hankins, McCormick is currently in negotiations with the Egyptian government over second-hand mummies. Hankins added that his friend hopes to use information gleaned from these mummies to determine early settlement patterns and the ethnic make-up of Europe. “The marriage between health and history is something that has been occasionally attempted...but [McCormick] seems to be doing it really, really, really well,” Hankins says...